2001 EDS PAUL RAPPAPORT AWARD
Each year, the IEEE Electron Devices Society confers the Paul Rappaport Award to the best paper published in an EDS publication. This year there were two winners of the award. The first paper deals with organic electronics. This is an upcoming area of technical focus which is expected to see growth in years to come. The second paper reviews the history of the genesis of the solid-state era ushered by the invention of the Bipolar Transistor at Bell Laboratories in 1947. As a related item, Doug Verret has introduced review papers as a standard feature of T-ED. The details of the two winners are given below.
The 2001 award will be presented at the IEDM on 9 December, 2002 in San Francisco, CA. It consists of a certificate and a check for $2,500 to be shared among the winners. Brief biographies of the four authors are given below.
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C.D. Dimitrakopoulos
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C.D. Dimitrakopoulos is a Research Staff Member at IBM, T. J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY, where he works on organic semiconductor materials and devices. He has been with IBM since 1995. From 1993 to 1995, he was a post-doctoral fellow at Philips Research Laboratories in Eindhoven, NL, where he also worked on organic semiconductors. He holds Ph.D., M.Phil. and M.S. degrees in Materials Science from Columbia University and a B.S. degree in Metallurgical Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens, Greece. He is the author or co-author of 8 patents, several more pending patent applications and at least 25 papers. In 2000, he received an IBM Outstanding Innovation Award, for "High Performance Organic Transistors on Plastic".
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| Ioannis Kymissis |
Ioannis Kymissis received the S.B. and M.Eng. degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, in 1998 and 1999. He worked on his master's thesis at the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, NY, investigating organic semiconductors. He is currently a doctoral student at the MIT Microsystems Technology Lab and is studying alternative processes for fabricating field emission devices. Mr. Kymissis is a member and former officer of the MIT IEEE student chapter.
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| Sampath Purushothaman |
Sampath Purushothaman is a Research Staff Member and Manager of Advanced Interconnect Technology at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY. Dr. Purushothaman received his B.Tech. in Metallurgy from Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India and his M.S. and Eng.Sc.D. in Metallurgy and Materials Science from Columbia University, New York. He has been with IBM since 1979 and has worked in various research areas including advanced packaging interconnects for high performance bipolar and CMOS server systems; materials and processes for flat panel displays; fabrication and optimization of thin film transistor devices based on organic semiconductors; and processing and integration of copper wiring with low k and ultra-low k dielectrics for silicon back end of the line interconnects. He has authored over 60 technical publications and holds 50 US patents.Dr. Purushothaman has received several technical awards at IBM for his outstanding technical achievements.
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Raymond M. Warner, Jr.
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Raymond M. Warner, Jr. (B.S., Physics, Carnegie Tech, and Ph.D., Physics, Case Tech) was Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of Minnesota, 1970 Ð 1989. He was Radio Officer in the European and Pacific Theatres sharing responsibility for a circuit between the headquarters of Generals Patton and Bradley (Europe). Subsequently, he had 20 years of electron-device experience: Corning Glass Works; Bell Labs; and managerially at Motorola Semiconductor; Texas Instruments; ITT; and Union Carbide. He is inventor on 30 issued patents, and author on four technical books and 70 journal publications, and in 1969 helped conduct an NSF-sponsored seminar at Pilani, India.
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